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Released in 1957 - seems filming started from 1950 and then resumed 1954 before completion. Viewable at http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=2009 . Fascinating footage for me at least - so much has changed in comparison with today, but so much is also still pretty much as it was then.

Any vehicle with BS plates is Orkney issue.

Barrels of Highland Park for ingo and the distillery:

One of the first successful wind turbines in Scotland at Costa Hill, built by John Brown Engineering of Glasgow in 1955 - http://www.orkneywind.co.uk/costa.html - a 100Kw machine, which blew down later in a gale:

Plane for impdb - the flight from Aberdeen landing at Grimsetter airport, the ex-WW2 fighter airfield which is now Kirkwall airport:

Many pics upgraded with better quality version - unfortunately it's a set of 3 clips and the first 4 minutes of the film is not included, so upgrade is incomplete. But I'd still like to get the truck on Kirkwall pier an ID

If anyone's interested in what Orkney used to look like there's this silent "1959" amateur dashboard camera film - https://scotlandonscreen.org.uk/browse-films/007-000-002-531-c . Probably actually 1960-61 as there's at least one Mini in it, and I think the car used is a 1953-55 Sunbeam Alpine with louvred bonnet - right at the end there is a sunny shot on cliff-top by the derelict WW2 defences (at Yesnaby - one of my favourite bits of Orkney) showing the front of the Alpine in the distance.